Almost every hobbyist reverse engineer uses cracked IDA which is easily available. I have never seen ghidra being recommended for serious work.

lima an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is changing, Ghidra is increasingly replacing IDA for commercial work.

IAmLiterallyAB 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And everyone uses Ghidra exclusively where I work. I'd say we're a serious operation

jki275 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The NSA doesn't do serious work?

	▲	ARandomerDude an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That wasn't the claim. Ability + interest + time + budget + ... are what makes a serious tool.

q3k 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I recommend it for serious work. Well, serious enough that I got paid for doing it, and/or given talks about it.

(not if you're only doing x86/ARM stuff, though)

	▲	bri3d 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agree. IDA is surely the “primary” tool for anything that runs on an OS on a common arch, but once you get into embedded Ghidra is heavily used for serious work and once you get to heavily automation based scenarios or obscure microarchitectures it’s the best solution and certainly a “serious” product used by “real” REs.